are yoo a thread killer?

WinterMoon

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Don't stare at your face in a mirror in a dark room at night with only a barest hint of light, your brain fills in what it cannot see and it can be quite horrifying.

Like you start imagening that you see Bloody Mary? Or that your own face looks a horror? 

 

WendyLuvsCatz

TigerAnne said:

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Don't stare at your face in a mirror in a dark room at night with only a barest hint of light, your brain fills in what it cannot see and it can be quite horrifying.

Like you start imagening that you see Bloody Mary? Or that your own face looks a horror? 

 

As a kid remember seeing skulls

I since found out this is an actual phenomena 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling-in

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading

some people with retina damage get Charles Bonet syndrome which is the same effect but during normal light

LeatherGryphon

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Don't stare at your face in a mirror in a dark room at night with only a barest hint of light, your brain fills in what it cannot see and it can be quite horrifying.

Been there, done that, was fascinated.

WendyLuvsCatz

LeatherGryphon said:

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Don't stare at your face in a mirror in a dark room at night with only a barest hint of light, your brain fills in what it cannot see and it can be quite horrifying.

Been there, done that, was fascinated.

OMG don't do it after a few drinks either 

Sven Dullah

SadKitty_Carrara said:

LeatherGryphon said:

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Don't stare at your face in a mirror in a dark room at night with only a barest hint of light, your brain fills in what it cannot see and it can be quite horrifying.

Been there, done that, was fascinated.

OMG don't do it after a few drinks either 

I avoid it in broad day light also

LeatherGryphon

TigerAnne said:

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Don't stare at your face in a mirror in a dark room at night with only a barest hint of light, your brain fills in what it cannot see and it can be quite horrifying.

Like you start imagening that you see Bloody Mary? Or that your own face looks a horror? 

 

Been there, done that.  There was nothing in the mirror!

WinterMoon

LeatherGryphon said:

 

Been there, done that.  There was nothing in the mirror!

Have you been feeling a strong aversion to sunlight and garlic for a while?

 

chaynawolfsmoon

Keep it down in here... Some of us are trying to work...

McGyver

chaynawolfsmoon said:

Keep it down in here... Some of us are trying to work...

But some us are trying to slack off... 

WendyLuvsCatz

The night of the living thread 

kyoto kid

TigerAnne said:

This must be why all the Hipsters love Portland so much. 

...yeah, Pabst hase become one of the biggest selling beers at pubs here, in spite of all the craft breweries here.

kyoto kid

TigerAnne said:

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Don't stare at your face in a mirror in a dark room at night with only a barest hint of light, your brain fills in what it cannot see and it can be quite horrifying.

Like you start imagening that you see Bloody Mary? Or that your own face looks a horror? 

 

...I just usually just see a Bloody Mary and it makes me want to head down to the pub.

McGyver

kyoto kid said:

TigerAnne said:

This must be why all the Hipsters love Portland so much. 

...yeah, Pabst hase become one of the biggest selling beers at pubs here, in spite of all the craft breweries here.

Is it for like some sort of ironic reason or something...? Or is there some hidden flavor in Pabst that I’ve been missing all these years?

Its not that Pabst is a bad beer, it’s just that... it’s... well... it’s Pabst.

kyoto kid

...it's a "coolness" thing as I understand. 

Yeah, grew up in Milwaukee WI and was weaned on Pabst.  There were other beers like MIller, Schlitz, Blatz (appropriate name after a few of those and a bratwurst smothered in sauerkraut), Old Style, Gettleman, and Braumeister, but even then Pabst seemed to be the swill of choice.

Back when i was in college up in Stevens Point, the popular beer there was the locally brewed Point Special. Actually not bad for a small town lager as they didn't put all the chemical preservatives in (one requirement to ship across state lines) and they use natural spring water (they also didn't distribute outside the county back then).  The brewery began in 1850s and is still in operation and still independently owned.  Like the old Coors (which many years you couldn't get outside of Colorado because of the shipping regulations), Point has developed a popular following in the midwest.  They do distribute to a other cities in Wisconsin (like Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay) but to ship to other states, it needs to be in refrigerated trucks as they still don't use chemical preservatives.  Whenever I do go back to visit, I "smuggle" a couple boxed & brown paper wrapped 6 packs back with me (easier to do on the train as I can keep it in my compartment, on the airlines I'd have to check it below and likely would not see on the baggage belt when I got back to Portland).

Mistara

SadKitty_Carrara said:

The night of the living thread 

ROFL 

what the thread is missing is some resident ebil  

Mistara

  

 

Mistara

kyoto kid said:

..you'd probably feel right at home here in Portland.

 

 

LOLL weener bike

WendyLuvsCatz

Threadworm killer

Watched one of those Doctors of Reddit, what was your worst Experience text to speech videos

never a good idea

 one had a woman pooping a cupfull of worms giving birth

I was immeadiately traumatised and so overjoyed when I found four Combabtrin chocolate squares from when I last wormed my cats

(for me, I always worm myself in case at the same time they get Advocate squeezed on the back of the neck) 

left in the medicine cabinet, I ate them and felt much less traumatised.

Chohole

Today is         TAA DAA      National Ampersand Day

Chohole

HOW TO OBSERVE #AmpersandDay

Celebrate the day by having fun with the ampersand:

• Use lots & lots of ampersands!
• Substitute “&” for “and” in everything you write.
• Think of syllable replacements such as &roid, c&elabra, b&.
• Send friends whose names contain “and” a special note — &y, &rea, Alex&er, Gr&ma.
• Design new styles of ampersands. (Remember, the ampersand represents the letters “et.”)
• Visit AmperArt.com.

 

WendyLuvsCatz

Chohole said:

HOW TO OBSERVE #AmpersandDay

Celebrate the day by having fun with the ampersand:

• Use lots & lots of ampersands!
• Substitute “&” for “and” in everything you write.
• Think of syllable replacements such as &roid, c&elabra, b&.
• Send friends whose names contain “and” a special note — &y, &rea, Alex&er, Gr&ma.
• Design new styles of ampersands. (Remember, the ampersand represents the letters “et.”)
• Visit AmperArt.com.

 

....and?

Chohole

Oh    and it's also National Gr&parents Day,   which also contains an ampersand

LeatherGryphon

Chohole said:

HOW TO OBSERVE #AmpersandDay

Celebrate the day by having fun with the ampersand:

• Use lots & lots of ampersands!
• Substitute “&” for “and” in everything you write.
• Think of syllable replacements such as &roid, c&elabra, b&.
• Send friends whose names contain “and” a special note — &y, &rea, Alex&er, Gr&ma.
• Design new styles of ampersands. (Remember, the ampersand represents the letters “et.”)
• Visit AmperArt.com.

 

One of my pet peeves is signs that have backwards ampersands.  Grrrrr..   Makes me want to march into the business establishment & chew somebody out for not knowing what an ampersand is.  You don't have to know the name of it but PLEASE use it the right way & don't give me the dyslexic excuse.  You got all the other letters right.   Not mounting the ampersand the right way is pure ignorance.  I keep hoping for my hero to make a name for himself & get written up in the newpaper or on an internet article.  My hero?  Of course, it's "Johnny Ampersand", who walks around the country with a bag of ampersands over his shoulder, fixing signs & planting the seeds of knowlege.

Note: Foreign readers may not get the tongue-in-cheek reference to the real American folk character  "Johnny Appleseed"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed

Edited to add:  OK, after visiting the AmperArt.com link above I see that there are Horatio, more styles of ampersands than were dreamt of in my philosophy.   But still, the guy putting up the business sign only has one style in the box of characters, get it right damn it!   It looks like THIS  "&"

Side note:  I find it interesting that in both Spanish & Russian, the word similar to the English conjunction "and" are both single letters & both pronounced "ee" (long "e") despite the different alphabets & different language histories.  "y" in Spanish & "И" in Russian.  

Sven Dullah

LeatherGryphon said:

 But still, the guy putting up the business sign only has one style in the box of characters, get it right damn it!   It looks like THIS  "&"
 

Not necessarily;)

 Nɐʇᴉouɐl פɹ⅋dɐɹǝuʇs pɐʎ
 Iʇ looʞs lᴉʞǝ ┴HIS  ,,⅋,,

Ǝpᴉʇǝp ʇo ɟᴉxǝ ʇʎdos

Chohole

Sven Dullah said:

 

Ǝpᴉʇǝp ʇo ɟᴉxǝ ʇʎdos

∀up ɯɐʞǝ ɐuoʇɥǝɹ ʇʎdo ʍɥᴉlǝ poᴉuƃ ᴉʇ

Sven Dullah

Chohole said:

Sven Dullah said:

 

Ǝpᴉʇǝp ʇo ɟᴉxǝ ʇʎdos

∀up ɯɐʞǝ ɐuoʇɥǝɹ ʇʎdo ʍɥᴉlǝ poᴉuƃ ᴉʇ

Mǝll˙˙˙ɟɹɐuʞlʎ' ɯʎ pǝɐɹ˙˙˙

LeatherGryphon

Arghhhh......  (runs into the sunset screaming maniacally) 

WendyLuvsCatz

I just modeled and rigged Ampersand Man I think

Sven Dullah

SadKitty_Carrara said:

I just modeled and rigged Ampersand Man I think

Love it=)))

kyoto kid

LeatherGryphon said:

Chohole said:

HOW TO OBSERVE #AmpersandDay

Celebrate the day by having fun with the ampersand:

• Use lots & lots of ampersands!
• Substitute “&” for “and” in everything you write.
• Think of syllable replacements such as &roid, c&elabra, b&.
• Send friends whose names contain “and” a special note — &y, &rea, Alex&er, Gr&ma.
• Design new styles of ampersands. (Remember, the ampersand represents the letters “et.”)
• Visit AmperArt.com.

 

One of my pet peeves is signs that have backwards ampersands.  Grrrrr..   Makes me want to march into the business establishment & chew somebody out for not knowing what an ampersand is.  You don't have to know the name of it but PLEASE use it the right way & don't give me the dyslexic excuse.  You got all the other letters right.   Not mounting the ampersand the right way is pure ignorance.  I keep hoping for my hero to make a name for himself & get written up in the newpaper or on an internet article.  My hero?  Of course, it's "Johnny Ampersand", who walks around the country with a bag of ampersands over his shoulder, fixing signs & planting the seeds of knowlege.

Note: Foreign readers may not get the tongue-in-cheek reference to the real American folk character  "Johnny Appleseed"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed

Edited to add:  OK, after visiting the AmperArt.com link above I see that there are Horatio, more styles of ampersands than were dreamt of in my philosophy.   But still, the guy putting up the business sign only has one style in the box of characters, get it right damn it!   It looks like THIS  "&"

Side note:  I find it interesting that in both Spanish & Russian, the word similar to the English conjunction "and" are both single letters & both pronounced "ee" (long "e") despite the different alphabets & different language histories.  "y" in Spanish & "И" in Russian.  

...both "И" & "Я" are occasionally misused here in the States.

("The Yassiaees Are Coming?"  Who are the Yassiaees?)

(Toys "Ya" Us?)